"In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours."

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Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

#Country Quotes #Rain Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.”

Source : Cintra Wilson (2010). “Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world”
“When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.”
“I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.”
“I weep when I see these videos that are sent to me from all over the country.Â Whole groups of bodies jerking out of control, falling on the floor, laughing hysterically, staggering around like drunkards Anything that cannot be found in Scripture has to be rejected outrightÂ -Â totally rejected,”
“A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.”
“The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.”
“I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.”

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